Austrian (and other) Napoleonics

[Gangleri]

Lovely Hussars, really nice work and such a lovely uniform.

Thanks very much!

[Gangleri]

The French army will begin to take to the field for the New Year's campaign season, so I started reworking them as well.  Here are some dragoons who got the rebasing/repainting treatment.





And a Cavalry general to lead them:



Happy 2019!

[valleyboy]

Excellent stuff

[Baron von Wreckedoften]

(How did one of them come by a gold bayonet? Was it some glorious deed for the Emperor?!  )

No, but he gets to tour the chocolate factory at the end of the campaign.....

[Axebreaker]

Great looking army!

Christopher

[Gangleri]

No, but he gets to tour the chocolate factory at the end of the campaign.....

Ha! And a free sample in the gift shop.

 

Great looking army!

Christopher

Thanks very much.

Excellent stuff

Thank you!

[Bloodysword]

Really beautiful figures!  I just started painting Russian Napoleonic miniatures and I can appreciate the amount of work that you have put in.  What game are they based for?

[archiduque]

Excellent stuff!!

[Gangleri]

Really beautiful figures!  I just started painting Russian Napoleonic miniatures and I can appreciate the amount of work that you have put in.  What game are they based for?

Thank you kindly.  They are not based for anything in particular, since I am much more of a painter than a gamer.  The only thing I've ever used them for is March of Eagles.  One day I hope to find a group to have some proper games with, though.

Excellent stuff!!

Thank you!

[Gangleri]

Hey, everyone. Quick update on this project.

First, I finished a stand of Pioniere.  The pioneers were the least skilled of the engineering services, often providing supportive manual labor to the other corps, such as the sappers shown earlier.

The officer is a converted infantry officer, with a plastic Korsehut and some other changes from his original attacking pose.  The others are a plastic sergeant and two converted Lippe-Detmold infantry.  The Rheinbund range has a lot of fodder for Austrian conversions.

Also, work continues on my farmland scenery.

The farmhouse is modeled after one of Oshiro's excellent buildings on his "German/Austrian Builds" log which is well worth a look-see.

The yard:


A dovecote, complete with bird poop, copied from a photo of a Lower Austrian dovecote:


A countryman's woodpile can never be big enough:


Traditionally shaped beehives:


Pioneers advance past the orchard to clear some obstacles:


More to follow soon.  C&C welcome.

[DintheDin]

Very nice additions!
The farmhouse is top notch! Cheers!

[Plutarch64]

Beautiful work, and I especially like the beehives.

[Belisarius]

Splendid troops , a pleasure to see the more unusual units Austrian units on the table .

[Gangleri]

Splendid troops , a pleasure to see the more unusual units Austrian units on the table .

Thanks very much.  I am really trying to add a bit of variety beside the standard 'whitecoats' (see below).

Beautiful work, and I especially like the beehives.

Thank you! I am very fond of them too, and I use them a bunch in medieval/fantasy settings.

Very nice additions!
The farmhouse is top notch! Cheers!

Thanks, Din.  I am just getting into scratch-building buildings, so this farmhouse was a good learning experience.

I was also able to finish a unit that has been in the works for a long time, a battalion of Carinthian Landwehr.




Perry plastics with the Korsehut trimmed down into the stovepipe shown in uniform records.  The officer, however, is a Nassauer, with his coat front resculpted.  It would probably have been more accurate to make the coats double-breasted, but the Landwehr was not always precise with uniform specifications and it would have been a lot of work anyway.  Some of the troops have been given Perry ACW slouch hats and different-colored greatcoats to reflect this, though in actuality there would have been more obvious variability in uniforms.  The flag is speculative but in keeping with known Landwehr standards of this time, which usually feature a local/regional coat-of-arms on a white field with some sort of flame pattern around the edge.  The pole is in the regional colors: yellow over red over white.


An Eder illustration taken from the excellent Napoleon Series website.  Now that I look at it again, I will probably go back and add a few red-and-yellow pom-poms.

Hope to have more soon.